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Some 6,000 Iranian laborers will be sent overseas in the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 21, IRNA quoted Iranian deputy labor minister Khalil Sadeqinia as saying.
The workers will be sent to Turkey, Iraq, Australia, Canada, and some European countries, he noted.
Some 1,000 workers were sent to other countries in the past Iranian calendar year, he added.
He urged the private sector to boost activities to send workers abroad as there are no sanction targeted at the private sector.
The nation's working population was 25 million in the past Iranian calendar year, according to the Statistical Center of Iran.
The administration had pledged to create 2.5 million jobs in the past (calendar) year.
In April, the International Monetary Fund said Iran's economy should emerge from a recession caused by Western sanctions over its nuclear program, but not until 2014, a year later than previously forecast, Reuters reported.
The international body forecast unemployment in Iran would rise to 13.4 percent this year and 14.7 percent in 2014 from 12.5 percent in 2012.
But the IMF also predicted GDP would resume expanding in 2014, at a pace of 1.1 percent. This suggests the economy will be able to find domestic sources of demand to at least partly compensate for its damaged export industries.
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With respect to TRANSFORMERS, we currently believe full year revenue for the brand will be between the levels reported during the past 2 movie years, specifically between the $482 million we reported in 2007 and $592 million reported in 2009. This is in line with our original 2011 plans. And despite beginning the year with carryforward inventory, TRANSFORMERS has been a major contributor to our revenue growth during the year, posting strong shipments and point-of-sale gains versus last year, with the year-over-year point-of-sale trends improving since the movie launch.
Given this was the third movie that focus on the same core cast of characters, we did not have the same collector pounce at product launch that we had in past years. However, the broad global consumer base has responded to the movie and trends have improved. In several markets, including several mature markets, TRANSFORMERS shipments year-to-date are up in the triple digits year-over-year, and point-of-sale in many countries during0 the third quarter was also up greater than 100%. On September 30, the Blu-Ray DVD was released, which helps to continue the momentum in the brand and serves as another opportunity to engage with our TRANSFORMERS consumers.
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Okay. And TRANSFORMER 4, any news on when that might occur, given the strong box office for the third movie? And any other comments on what might be out in 2013, apart from, I guess, the Marvel announcements?
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Yes. We do have a couple of movies from Marvel that have already been announced in Iron Man 3 and Thor 2. As you imagine, with the success of a franchise like TRANSFORMERS, we're in active discussions with our great partners at Paramount with Michael Bay, with Steven Spielberg and our writer to talk about what's next on TRANSFORMERS. And hopefully, I'll have some more news to share with you in the next quarter.
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Posted by RodimalToyota on October 17th, 2011 @ 11:03am CDT
Hasbro making profit is good for us, especially in a down market, it will give them more faith in releasing more product. Hasbro has invested alot to span out, glad to see it paying off.
Posted by Immortal Starscream on October 17th, 2011 @ 11:17am CDT
artemis_prime wrote:one question: how are they gonna do a 4th movie when Bay killed off the entire decepticon chain of command?
Death was only a ... Minor setback.
dude it's the movies. in movies, comicbooks and cartoons, realty and common logic go ou the window, anything is possible.
megatron gets rebuilt
galvatron comes to town to play (make him a diffrent character then megs)
new unique villan!
war of the dinobots!
insecticon plague
robot jesus said let thier be light and megatron who was a true beleiver was resurected, instead of going to see the robod devil and his old pal bender
Cy-kill and his renegades take over!
possibilities are endless realy
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Posted by whacko on October 17th, 2011 @ 12:03pm CDT
artemis_prime wrote:one question: how are they gonna do a 4th movie when Bay killed off the entire decepticon chain of command?
Posted by RodimalToyota on October 17th, 2011 @ 12:08pm CDT
One that actually does some damage and lives through the movie.
Posted by NovaSentinel on October 17th, 2011 @ 12:11pm CDT
Posted by nemesis-prime on October 17th, 2011 @ 1:00pm CDT
Posted by Kiyza on October 17th, 2011 @ 1:17pm CDT
kirbenvost wrote:Hrm. I can't say I'm surprised, but I do wish they would take a break for a few years.
Yeah, that would probably be in their best interests. While I'd really like a fourth film, taking a three or four year hiatus before making another film, or starting a second trilogy for that matter, would probably be for the better. There can be such a thing as too much Transformers, and if we get too many movies back to back, there's a chance the public at large could get sick of them and it won't just be the critics who are tired of these giant robot films.
I was hoping for a while that an inevitable fourth film will have a distinct lack of Michael Bay, but judging by this article, it looks like that probably won't be happening...
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Posted by dirk2243 on October 17th, 2011 @ 2:53pm CDT
My only complaint here is...........
Another 10-15 Bumblebee and Prime repaints for the toy collectors.
Posted by OlivusPrime on October 17th, 2011 @ 2:55pm CDT
Megatron Wolf wrote:and if they were to release all those figures that we never got last year theyd see an even bigger increase. Why do they have to talk to bay, we dont want him & he said he didnt want to do a 4th movie. Let Spielberg do it, let him have full control over it so we can finally get something new and possible passable as transformers.
Saying "we don't want him" is a bit of an over exaggeration really. There are plenty of people who appreciate Bay's involvement, such as myself, for better or for worse.
Also, remember that Spielberg was the one who wanted to make it about "a boy and his car", so essentially it was his choice to give the robots less screentime. Technically, no Spielberg = more transformers = less Sam Witwicky = less Bumblebee toys! Hurrah!
Really though, Hasbro need to give us a break, literally. It's way too early for speak about a fourth film, and I can't imagine myself being bothered to collect the toys if it comes out too soon.
Posted by OneConArmy on October 17th, 2011 @ 3:05pm CDT
artemis_prime wrote:one question: how are they gonna do a 4th movie when Bay killed off the entire decepticon chain of command?
Not everyones dead. There's still Thundercracker, Flatline, and any of the Cons that survived Rising Storm like Bludgeon, Mindwipe, and others(if the directors + screenwriters would bother to do some research)
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Posted by RodimalToyota on October 17th, 2011 @ 4:07pm CDT
Bay is the only one who can bring the show to life, but if you guys want more robots and story, you need to axe Speilberg. The guy hasn't made a honest to god good movie since Saving Private Ryan back in the 90's. He like George Lucas are just Hollywood Dinosaurs.
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Posted by prowl123 on October 17th, 2011 @ 4:56pm CDT
RodimalToyota wrote:For personal reasons I hope Shia stays away, but professionally if he does a fourth, he will be the Transformers kid for life.
Bay is the only one who can bring the show to life, but if you guys want more robots and story, you need to axe Speilberg. The guy hasn't made a honest to god good movie since Saving Private Ryan back in the 90's. He like George Lucas are just Hollywood Dinosaurs.
Super 8?
Posted by OptiMagnus on October 17th, 2011 @ 5:38pm CDT
I dunno...I'm just not so sure about more movies at this point even though I've absolutely loved all three so far. I'm just afraid it's going to lose it's magic.
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Posted by TulioDude on October 17th, 2011 @ 7:18pm CDT
I do really think they need to sit down and discuss what to donext and where they wanna go from now.
Posted by prowl123 on October 17th, 2011 @ 7:47pm CDT
Atfaro wrote:I was wondering if anyone else thinks that JJ Abrams would be an excellent fit for the next trilogy. Thoughts?
he certainly does well with SPFX
Posted by BATTOUSAIXD on October 17th, 2011 @ 9:12pm CDT
alternator77 wrote:only if the opening scene is bb and sam getting destroyed by a reborn megatron. and i want it to be brutal.
Excellent idea!
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Posted by Megatronsdemise666 on October 17th, 2011 @ 11:59pm CDT
transformers was going no where before the movies lol.
NOOO Spielberg should not do the fourth movie
he would probably make it about a single character rather then the transformers as a whole
Michael Bay may not be liked by alot of TF fans but he did do the whole war aspect alot better then any other TF series.
in the cartoons it seemed like the Autobots and Decepticons were just shooting fake lasers or something cause no one died or anything
but i would say that bay does need to focus more on the villains and give them some kick butt scenes.
although i agree that there needs to be a few years. like 4-6 years at the least
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"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." This classic line from "Casablanca" captures the essence of the relationship between American audiences and motion pictures. That love affair, protecting the nation's cinematic heritage, and the Library of Congress' role in film preservation are examined in the documentary, "These Amazing Shadows" (www.pbs.org/independentlens/ Written and directed by Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton, "These Amazing Shadows" will air nationally on the award-winning PBS series "Independent Lens," hosted by Mary Louise Parker, on Thursday, Dec. 29, at 10:00 p.m. (check local listings). This critically acclaimed documentary has also been released on DVD and Blu-ray and will be available through the Library of Congress Shop (www.loc.gov/shop/). Since 1989, the Library of Congress selects 25 films each year for preservation in the National Film Registry. These films are selected for their cultural, historical or aesthetic significance and reflect the rich and diverse landscape of the American experience through a wide spectrum of genres. They include Hollywood blockbusters, home movies, independent films, shorts, the avant-garde, documentaries and animated films. "These Amazing Shadows" examines the creation of the Library's congressionally mandated preservation initiative and explores the nation's love of movies through rich imagery and insightful commentary. The documentary artfully blends together popular-to-obscure registry film clips and interviews with directors, actors, producers, critics, scholars, archivists, Library staff and members of the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB). The producers highlight more than 165 film clips from such movie classics as "Casablanca" and "The Wizard of Oz" to provocative documentaries and historic home movies. Discussing the power of cinema and the need to preserve it are such notables as Christopher Nolan, Rob Reiner, John Singleton, John Waters, Tim Roth, Debbie Reynolds, Leonard Maltin and the Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington. As part of his mission to preserve the nation's film legacy, the Librarian of Congress names the 25 annual selections to the registry after reviewing hundreds of titles nominated by the public and conferring with Library staff and NFPB members. The number of selections in the registry currently totals 550. The 2011 selections for the National Film Registry will be announced on Wednesday, Dec. 28. Described as a "valentine" to motion pictures, "These Amazing Shadows" showcases compelling moments and poignant examples of the power and influence of film on American culture. Among them are: • "Boyz N the Hood" director John Singleton commenting on why he supported the controversial inclusion to the registry of D.W. Griffith's racially biased masterpiece "The Birth of a Nation"; • "Star Trek" actor George Takei recounting the experience of Japanese-Americans in relocation camps during World War II, which is authenticated by revealing scenes from "Topaz," Dave Tatsuno's home movie about the internment camps; • Stephen Peck's emotional insight into the value of such war films as "The Deer Hunter" and "Best Years of Our Lives"; • Before-and-after restoration work on "The Godfather" negatives left in tatters from overuse; • The Library's discovery and restoration of the uncut 1933 drama, "Baby Face," starring Barbara Stanwyck; • The role of women filmmakers and the pioneering work of Dorothy Arzner and Lois Weber, who was Universal's top director before 1920. Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. It seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions. Many of the Library's rich resources can be accessed through its website at www.loc.gov and via interactive exhibitions on a personalized website at myLOC.gov. Trackback(0)
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"Here, when we meet the character, it starts with a wide shot on nature and the unconquerable mountain range, then it pulls focus before he enters and steps into the frame," notes Aronofsky, sitting on a couch in his New York office. "You don't see Mifune's face for the whole title sequence, but you get so much of his character from the way his hair is strained, the way he carries himself, scratches himself, reaches his hand into his robe. He immediately creates a character. I love the way Mifune and Kurosawa always give the character a little twitch—rolling his shoulders around, stroking his beard."
Sanjuro follows a path and encounters a farmer trying to keep his rebellious son from leaving for town to make his fortune with the warring gamblers. "The framing is just perfect," Aronofsky says, as Sanjuro stops, slightly out of focus in the background, positioned between the arguing father and son on either side before him. "The story is about two sides of the town fighting, and how Sanjuro becomes a player and uses the power of each to destroy the other. But even in that opening shot, he's smack in the middle of a father-and-son battle."
"Who wants a long life eating porridge?" the petulant son cries as he runs off to town. "At the end of the film Kurosawa pays this off and he is the one kid who survives," Aronofsky says.
In the next scene, Sanjuro takes some water while the farmer argues with his wife. Again, the samurai is positioned in the background between them, though the three figures largely occupy only the right half of the screen. "From the way in which they are all blocked, you understand exactly what's going on with everyone. You don't even need dialogue. If you can block well enough, it explains what the characters are doing and feeling. That's ultimately the intention, always."
As Sanjuro enters the town, people hiding behind shuttered windows peer out so they can see what's going on. The first living creature he encounters, however, is a dog trotting along with a severed human hand in its mouth. "A town under siege," Aronofsky comments, which seems like an accurate reading of the scenario. "The music is playful and humorous but still has drive and suspense. The instrument playing the low notes maintains the drive."
Sanjuro befriends the tavern keeper, Gonji, and situates himself in his establishment, learning the lay of the land and plotting his next move. "Everything is set up so perfectly," Aronofsky says. "Like the way the line about how the coffin maker, 'can't make coffins fast enough,' pays off later. There's no waste in this film and that, to me, is what's so inspirational; it's boiled down to the bare necessities of what it is to make a film."
As Sanjuro and Gonji watch, the drama's distinctive characters are introduced, and through skilled casting and quick brush strokes, they are rendered instantly identifiable to the audience. Kurosawa efficiently sets the pieces on the chessboard so that they can be quickly called upon later to fill their roles in the narrative. "I think it's important to establish a character as quickly as you can," Aronofsky says. "I always try to introduce my stars with a close-up. The beauty of film is that you can put the camera five inches away from Paul Newman's face and stare into those blue eyes, without being at all self-conscious. There's nothing like being able to look at a person in a dark room and experiencing their emotions without being self-conscious of them looking back—especially when they're having some of the deepest emotions that people feel."
"Kurosawa is setting up the information, locations and visual rules of the film," Aronofsky says. "His attention to geography is brilliant. He's a war general, in that sense. In Seven Samurai, when the samurais draw in the sand and lay out the plan, he tells you the entire movie, right there. You get so many films today with shootouts, where you don't know what the hell's going on. But when Kurosawa picks his shots for the battle scenes, everything makes perfect sense."
Aronofsky marvels at how Kurosawa pays off his setups, and leans forward in anticipation of Mifune's punch line, after he easily slaughters the first group of gangsters. "Cooper, two coffins. No, maybe three," he says to the coffin maker. Mifune drops the line and tosses away his toothpick in a true movie star moment, as the now familiar music kicks back in. "That is, I think, the first hero one-liner," says Aronofsky. "It's the beginning of 'Hasta la vista, baby,' or 'I'll be back.' All those heroes were built out of this guy—that mix of comedy and action is something that people are still doing today. It's a great film moment. Everything comes together: blocking, lighting, special effects, sound, the theme of the film. I used to have it on VHS and I watched that sequence so many times I actually ruined the tape from cueing it up in the same place over and over again."
Making a deal with one of the gang bosses, Sanjuro looks out at the field before him and comes up with a name for himself, Kuwabatake [Mulberry Field] Sanjuro, to which Aronofsky responds, "that's the whole spirit of samurai films; this wandering soul who is so of the time, place, moment and environment, and connected to nature."
As Sanjuro sits in a meeting with a gang boss and his scheming wife, the boss' fighting instructor is angered by Sanjuro's presence. In his staging, Kurosawa's mastery of composition becomes immediately apparent: he creates four levels to the depth of field and four eye lines. "Look at that framing," Aronofsky says of what, in lesser hands, could have been a painfully dull shot. "There is so much sitting in Japanese period pieces and you can create so much geometry in the blocking. It's harder to do stuff like this in American films, but the way he balances out the frame has definitely inspired a lot of my work. The balance is created by opposites perfectly pulling on each other, almost like isometric workouts. The closest I've come is in my new film The Fountain, which grew from the necessity of trying to create screen direction for a character who is supposed to be in zero gravity."
"Once again, environment is so crucial in Kurosawa's work," Aronofsky says a moment later, as he watches the wind picking up outside, sending leaves tumbling along the ground. "The guy uses wind like nobody else. Most people wouldn't take the time and effort to put that detail in, to put the giant fans up and dress the leaves. It adds so much character to the town, but I think the wind has a lot to do with Sanjuro's character, as well; blowing into town, blowing out of town, ripping apart whatever it bumps into."
"I think every film has its own grammar," Aronofsky continues, "and the job of the filmmaker is to find the visual language that tells his story best. You can't force your style or stuff you've done before onto a new film. When I started The Fountain, I realized that the subject matter was very different than anything I'd done before in Pi or Requiem. I needed a new visual style to tell the story and we got rid of a lot of things that people have come to expect of my films."
Now, half way through Yojimbo, Kurosawa throws in a twist—a member of one of the gangs, Unosuke, returns to town with a revolver and has his first wordless face-off with Sanjuro. "We know that the big standoff is yet to come," Aronofsky says. "All the bad guy moments in the Bond films, so much is taken from this. It's the same as the bad guy with the silver teeth. The gun adds complication because you don't know how Sanjuro, with his sword, will ever defeat the gun but you know he'll eventually have to face it. It's the kryptonite of the movie."
The big surprise in the story comes when Sanjuro overplays his hand and is caught by one of the gangs, beaten and locked in a room. "Even here, when he lands right in the patch of light, it's brilliant work with cinematography," Aronofsky says. "Just his right eye in the light, then bam! A jump cut." Sanjuro's eye in the light, the one not too swollen to see, widens and Kurosawa cuts to an open padlock, then wider on the trunk on which the lock hangs, where Sanjuro realizes he can hide. "He only uses jump cuts twice in the film—right here and out in the field, when Sanjuro chooses his name. When you use a visual thing like a jump cut, it's great to use it more than once so it becomes part of the language."
Sanjuro escapes his captors in a ploy that Aronofsky says feels very modern—he hides in the box, then flees when his captors leave the door open as they go searching for him. Sanjuro's time for laying back is clearly over and the stage is set for his confrontation with Unosuke and his revolver. As Gonji assists him in his escape, he slips Sanjuro a dagger, something that will later become his secret weapon. "Even that dagger he just gave him is set up here so nonchalantly, when you're wondering how he's going to defeat the guy with the gun. It's done so brilliantly," Aronofsky says.
The standoff comes as Sanjuro and Unosuke face each other in the street, as they would in any Western. They approach slowly, Unosuke's cronies behind him. "How's he going to defeat the gun?" Aronofsky cries. The dagger can be seen protruding from Sanjuro's tunic. "There it is—the weapon, waiting. When he acts it's so quick. So sudden, no run-up to it. It just takes off by itself." Sanjuro fakes left, then right, then flings the dagger at Unosuke, catching him in his shooting arm. The kryptonite neutralized, Sanjuro proceeds to clean house like a hero should, but sparing the farmer's son from the beginning of the film. "Go home. A long life eating porridge is best!" Sanjuro tells him. "And thus he fully redeems the circle of the film, just where it started off. It's great," Aronofsky says with satisfaction.
While Yojimbo is stylistically worlds apart from Aronofsky's hyperactive first two films—Pi and Requiem for a Dream— and the upcoming dreamlike landscape of The Fountain, his narratives often conclude with direct references to the beginning of the film, while images and themes repeat themselves throughout, much as they do in Kurosawa's movies.
"It's amazing how some films can just stretch across culture and time and still make so much sense," he says, leaning back as the screen fades to black. "That's the goal—to make something that works so well that people will continue to enjoy it for years to come. Again, it's given me faith to go back to work. Sometimes it's hard to know where to stick the camera, but I think when you watch a film like this, you get inspired that there is always that one place where the camera is supposed to go. I use that as something of a mantra when I'm starting to visualize a film—there really is only one place where the camera goes; it needs to come out of what the scene is about, but ultimately what the theme of the film is. If you know what that is, then you really, in your gut, can only place the camera in one place. Yojimbo is an exercise in that, and proof that it's achievable."
Directors select and watch a film that influenced their career and analyze why it had such a profound effect on them.
Neil LaBute pays tribute to the precision and boldness of Mike Nichols' vision in Carnal Knowledge—a film he admits he has borrowed from freely.
With Jack Nicholson as the volatile R.P. McMurphy and Louise Fletcher as his nemesis Nurse Ratched, Miloš Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized performance over style. And that's still what impresses director Jean-Marc Vallée.
Shawn Levy admires the storytelling skill and deep emotion of Steven Zaillian's Searching for Bobby Fischer, a film that's had a lasting influence on his work.
Marc Forster revisits Alan J. Pakula's '70s-era conspiracy film, The Parallax View, and finds it as creepy today as when it was made. He explains how the director created a most disquieting mood.
Woody Allen's second film, Take the Money and Run, delighted a young Paul Feig. Even today it defines his sense of what you can get away with in comedy.
François Truffaut's New Wave classic Jules and Jim has lost none of its freshness and sense of innovation for Noah Baumbach. In fact, he borrowed some of its techniques for his latest film.
M. Night Shyamalan was captivated by Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show and how the plot is secondary to tone and texture. He's even tried to do it with his own films.
As an aspiring director, Darren Aronofsky watched Kurosawa's Yojimbo so much he wore out the tape. He watches it again and explains what he learned.
Directors on live variety shows like American Idol have to think on their feet to capture the spontaneous action - and unexpected gifts - of non-pro performers.
Women directors have been shamefully under-employed in the industry for years. We brought together a group of prominent female directors to discuss ways to address the issue.
A veritable Zelig of the industry, and an inexhaustible fund of good anecdotes (including one involving Shelley Winters and another involving a difficult Jerry Lewis), Rich remains fine company from first page to last in this chronicle of an epic life.
A critic wonders if movies change - or we do.
Mel Brooks instructs Bloom and Bialystock in The Producers.
As directors on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia, Plonka handles the in-studio segments while Hammon hits the streets for single-camera sketches.


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The toothpick wielder was granted the Master MasterCard, infinite credit. I was born in the borderline between reality and unreality. The contact point between pen and ink. It was this verge, this verse, this cutting edge of the razor of reality from which the creativity of humankind flowered forth. We all went in search of the Universal Message together. Candle, the human female playing a red and white deck, was in awe of herself and my stomach grumbled, churned, quaked, started again... but I wasn't hungry.
Yesterday, I played Magic: the Gathering with EDB, the toothpick wielder. He won both games, once with a deck I built for him, once with a deck partly of his own choosing. They were true games. His deck was a black, white, green optical illusion deck, and mine was a blue, red, green creature control deck. However, I had turned off my power in order to lose fairly. Fate decided the outcome. I was in awe of myself. I reassumed by true role, and Candle smiled sweetly, innocently.
We had teriaki for lunch that day. The elven savior sat to my left with outside help. The ring-bearer was there, shrugging off chaos, Ruddy the Red was learning to play a gray deck, and Mathematician the Gray was attempting a red deck. It was the most controlled explosion in the world, moving at a pace of 3.14159265 cm/minute. The boundaries were set. We went on to play a game of scavenger hunt without objects.
It ended when Love's representative found the bug}insect. We found ourselves in true geekdom. Love's representative was a male geek, solid, human, friendly. He represented the twin rings himself, binding like Courtship. He would be able to find free will and Fate whenever Fate needed to be rescued in the great scavenger hunt without frontiers, war without death.
Life reformed, and played a squirrel deck, merging with all opponents with tremendous speed. I kept him in check. We were both EDB and not EDB at the same time. The holder of the Master MasterCard jammed his toothpick through his computer monitor, opening forth magic as yet untapped in our reality. He was a frontier elf. We cheered.
He was pushing the limits of the City of God ever outward. The gated community reversed itself. The white picket fences joined the Fellowship of the Ring. Candle and I had our twin rings, and we graduated to married life. The king and the queen returned after merging with each one of their enemies. Redefinition. Game over. The Eternal Chess Match continued on, this time with new, more brilliantly drab and boringly brilliant colors.
And we'll stop here for now...
I had determined yesterday that I would complete a minor coding exercise before that day was out and having failed in that I approached it this morning with a slightly obsessive attitude. I made some progress by neglecting an early lecture but was thrown mid-afternoon by a half-dozen intermittant power cuts.
At this point my head was all charged up like a van der graaf dome, arcing all over the shop. I'm not really a walker but I had to just leave the house and walk. No particular place to go. Just exploring.
I experienced that most irritating feeling as I drifted along. I felt that I was just starting to understand something but without any of the relief that understanding normally brings. It was the kind of understanding that you get when you release your thinking is all wrong. You're going to have to rethink a lot of things and untangle a lot of knots. A lot of what you think is true is very arbitrary.
God knows what prompted this type of thinking, too much spodding, a quarter-life crisis. I'm sure that my feelings are not new to the world but they are moving me. There is nothing I have that could even be defended as idea yet. They are just notions.
Nevertheless, they are crucial. They encompass what I am, how I see the world and where I stand in it. These thoughts do not go away. They just bide their time while I divert myself. I'll need to take them on soon.
I have finally come to my senses. After ten years of fighting with the truth, I have decided to come to terms with this one, simple fact : There is no Love.
I've been alone as long as I can remember. Sure, I have friends. I have family. I even have plenty of friends here. But I'm tired of being alone in my heart. I've been waiting for that special someone to come along for far too long. I used to be a hopeless romantic; in love with the idea of being in love. But it's never happened. I thought it had once, but it was just co-dependency rearing it's ugly face.
I'm bitter, jaded, and tired of all the bullshit I put myself through. I'm tired of all the bullshit the world puts me through. I watch movies about love, and when they end happily, I know it's bullshit. When they end sadly, they try to soften the blow with "Love is forever". No, it's not. If it was, then why all the pain? Love is supposed to be about happiness. If love is forever, then why does the happiness end? I have seen many friends, both in real life and on here, get irrevocably hurt from "love". Many a night have I stayed up late, at home on the phone, at the computer typing, or at a party holding someone's hard, listening to the poor sap, boy or girl, pour his or her heart out to me over something they call "love". I'm sorry, but if you've only know each other for two or three months, its not love, it's lust.
Love will not find me, I know this now. I mourn the loss of my innocence, but I am better because of it. I won't be flittering around, hoping to be happy because someone else loves me. I will make my own happiness. Don't pity me because I've seen the light. Don't hate me because it scares you that my words ring true. Just think of my words, and see if you are happy in your suffering...
I can be a very negative and antagonistic person. So I am making a bit of an effort to let the nice stuff out. To apologise when need be. To say so if something bugs me. Even to compliment.
Work is ok, despite the upsteam problems. Our ecommerce web site can only work if two upstream providers are on line, and both of them have been in yo-yo mode for the last few days, and we have nad some publicity so the number of new registrations and purchases is up. Many of these are failing, and there's not much I can do about it except phone people off site and tell them that thier box is down again. We have reliable server hardware and a reliable OS on it. I know that both of them are running MS.
Out of boredom in the evenings (finished reading the silmarillion, yes, that bored) I have been playing Serious Sam. It is light, fun, plays like doom, only more so. I like mindless games with lots of big explosions to help me relax. If I want something intricate or complex on a computer I'll write code instead.
I wonder if I will finish the game before I have to pack up all my stuff. In five weeks time I am moving half-way around the world, and the size of that task is beginning to get to me.
Klaproth has eaten 6 of my older, shorter, sillier writeups, though not ones that will be much missed. Oh well, good to know that Quality assurance is at work. I don't do funny nodes much these days, the attrition rate is just too high.
I am in an absolutely fantastic mood right now. I have just completed a short story. It originally started as an experiment in noding. The idea was to get a list of all of my node titles and then weave as many of them as possible into a story. From there I was going to post it on E2. Not a single node link leads to someone else's work. While at first glance, this seems self aggrandizing, that wasn't the point of it. I did it as a sort of challenge to myself. I mean, here I am with 195 writeups, right? I got to wondering how many of those node titles could be used as viable, linkable phrases. Are the node titles just useless, glib tripe or can they be used in certain contexts? I suppose any node title could be used in a certain context, but would it make sense?
So, I got to writing, to find out. It took me about a week and a half. I finished it tonight, not thirty minutes ago. The story itself stands on its own and relates to a book I've been writing called Mystic Ghost. In addition, I've written some new content for the Mystic Ghost node (which hasn't been posted yet, but will be soon), so that it will make more sense in relation to the story.
I'm going to format it for posting on E2 over the next hour or so- it resides in my laptop right now and I will need to transfer it to my desktop system.
I know this just sounds completely boring, but for me it's a real kick in the pants. I haven't actually completed a story in six months- well, that's not entirely true... there was "Inside a Living Nightmare", but that was an exceptional situation. I needed this big-time. I needed to see that, yes, I can carry something to fruition. The story itself might bomb entirely. It might get downvoted to oblivion- I don't care. The story makes me happy and it adds to the body of work I've been doing in the last year and that's all that matters to me. I've tentatively named it "Shell: Handmaiden of a Mechanized God", but that title might change at the last minute.
It's 7,000 words, which really isn't that much. I've pounded out 7K in a night. That it took me a week and a half kinda irks me, but I can't complain about the storyline. Damn. I'm just in a good mood.
I like it when I accomplish a goal. We all need a goal in life- even small ones.
I've been wandering around Paris for the last few hours, and I desperately need a hug and a good cry. I've been getting the latter.
And of course I've been trying to figure out how to write all this, because, well, that's what I do.
My Dad used to buy a lottery ticket every week, actually, several of them: one with a set of numbers he had put together with our birthdates, and his wedding anniversary--numerology really, and then he'd get a few more where the computer picked numbers at random.
My Dad is a very smart man. Mechanically and mathematically inclined, if never scholastically--he was on both the high school chess and baseball teams (he was an excellent pitcher until a shoulder injury). He was a machinist and mechanic while in high school, and he even went to junior college, for about a semester--because he met Mom there, he always says, with a sort of sly grin.
In any case, he knew the odds of winning the lottery. I think he was even the first person to show me how to calculate them.
Today is my birthday. I'm 26 years old, exactly half his age. I found out today that he has a bone marrow cancer. One so rare that his doctor said, "You had a better chance of winning the lottery."
In some ways, though, this is a relief. He's been sick for several months, not working for 6 weeks. There's been a stream of doctors, and angry phone calls to the insurance company, trying to find the right person, the one who will say, "Yes, you can run that test."
He insisted that I go on my trip anyway. I'm on one of those proverbial backpacking trips in Europe--I had planned for 6 months, between finishing my master's degree and starting a doctoral program. 2 months on the train, then the rest finding a really cheap place in Germany and trying to learn to talk.
Its been really good so far, though I'm really struggling with Paris. I've actually managed a couple of transactions all in french, by memorizing phrases from my phrase book. I'm still terrified of actually going into a restaurant, because they might use words that aren't in my meagre vocabulary, and I might have to resort to, "Je ne comprends pas. Anglais?" which I've gotten _very_ good at, and of course they always do speak english. Which is both helpful and disappointing, I want to learn from them, and I'm woefully ignorant. Even the panhandlers in Europe seem to speak three languages.
But this is the sort of story Dad seems to enjoy hearing, and why he keeps telling me to stay, to continue. Despite my guilt. Despite my need to do _something_ that might help.
That was until today. When I talked to Mom, and she told me that they finally had a diagnosis, and a treatment plan. She actually apologized for asking, but she wants me to come home the last week of March, which is when they will do the third round of chemotherapy, and then the bone marrow transplant. The first round started yesterday, and will continue for 4 days, after which he gets to go home. She thinks I will be helpful around then, but that until then it will make him feel better for me to stay here.
He's at UCSF medical center, where the head of hematology has seen exactly three cases of this kind of cancer in her career. No one else there has ever seen one. They've actually given him a life expectancy, based on averages from their small sample:
The reason its only 8-10 years with treatment is that they don't think they can reverse the damage that has already been done to his kidneys and liver. Nor are they completely confident in the bone marrow transplant, because they will have to use his marrow, harvested and treated just before they use radiation to kill all the rest of it. He'll be in the hospital for a month for that, in isolation for much of it because his immune system will be pretty much gone. It would work better if they could find someone with matching marrow to transplant, but, again the statistics, they think its impossible to find one except in a full-blooded sibling. Dad has a half-sister.
I don't know what else to say. They want me to stay over here for 2 more months, and I'm feeling really isolated. I need to do something, and there's nothing I can do--either here or there.
After I hung up the phone with Mom, I checked out of the hostel so I could move to a less crowded one, and walked to the Place Bastille, and sat and cried for a while. A piece of paper tumbled along the ground in front of me, kicking up then coming down, repeatedly, like that plastic bag in American Beauty. It flipped over and stopped in front of me for a second--would you believe that it was a fucking lottery ticket?
I live very close to New York City. In fact, I regularly make a trip into said city, often with some enthusiasm. I'm proud of the fact that I live near New York City. At least, most of the time.
I'm going home to South Jersey this weekend, and I'm exceedingly glad that I'll be there as opposed to in the City this weekend. And not just 'cause I'm going to see my son.
I will NOT be in the City on the weekend of the World Economic Forum. I will NOT be protesting the World Economic Forum. I will NOT be joining the ranks of Another World is Possible, or the Anti-Capitalist Convergence for their "green" (ie. "non-violent", although their website tells people to bring gas masks) protests.
First off, I'd just like to point out the fact that telling people to bring gas masks is only provoking the matter. it's a vicious circle; police will see the gas masks and think something's going to happen, so they'll be extremely jumpy, and they'll react badly to anything, and blah blah blah. If you're going to bring protection, bring something that fits in your pocket. But that's not my point.
Let's think for a minute, who's participating in these protests? Are poor people struggling on welfare and trying desperately to get a job to support their four kids going to these protests? Are homeless people who lost their jobs due to economic setbacks going to these protests? Are the people who work 16 hours a day just to make ends meet going to these protests?
These people are at home, resting their tired feet. Or they're still at work, while the people who work 40 hours a week, or less, are going to these protests "on behalf of these people".
Let's think for a moment about what these people want. These poor, struggling people who work for every penny they get just to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. They want what every red-blooded American wanted in the 50's - they want a million dollars, and a big home, and someone else to do all their work. Or maybe they just want a job that will make them comfortable. You know, something they like to do that pays pretty well. Where they have time to be with their children, or clean their homes, or maybe even have enough money to have a new mattress for the bed or a weekend trip to the beach once in a while, or, God forbid, a newER car than the car that's been in far too many accidents and has too many replaced used parts already.
Kinda like what all these people have who are actually going to these protests.
Now let's think about these people who are going to these protests.
These are people who have a decent job that pays likely $30K a year or more. Something where, if they have a roommate or two, can easily afford a decent apartment in a vaguely safe area. These are people who work anywhere between 30 and 50 hours a week at most (with minor exceptions on certain weeks), doing something they like and/or are eminently qualified to do after years of schooling, and they have health care, and they have new clothing every once in a while. Most importantly, they've got time to think.
They have the time to think about their bosses, and their bosses' bosses' boss, and how things would be better if everyone could be that rich. Or if their boss had to go through what they did in order to get that far in life. And they dwell on that for a very long time, and they start to think about redistribution of wealth. And they start to think about the people who don't have any money, or who work in other countries 16 hours a day for a pittance, and how if only the guy with all the money would give it all up for 75000 foreign workers, wouldn't life be a little better all around? And they start to think, Oh my God, it's the foreign government's fault, because they just want more money for themselves so they're going to reduce pay and whip the people to death until they're making billions of dollars per shoe that these people make in the sweatshop!
Hey, I've got an idea, let's go back to when England owned half the world and the Chinese still had their kings! Maybe then, people weren't so oppressed, exploited and poor!
Uh, I mean... No, actually I do mean exactly what I said. I've got news for you -- ever heard of serfs? You think they didn't have it like shit? There will ALWAYS be oppression/exploitation, economic, racial or any other kind you can think of, as long as there is pride, greed, and stupid people. And there will always be people who think it's wrong. Remember the 20's? When people tried to turn the United States Communist? Oh, we all see how well that worked, don't we?
I've got some more news for you, folks. That whole spreading the wealth idea? You really think that's going to work? That by spreading out the trillions of dollars in today's financial market among the 6.2 billion people in the world that that will solve everyone's financial woes? That offering any and every commodity cheaply or freely to anyone who wants or needs it is going to help? It doesn't work.
Oh, my God, what a revelation! People take things that they want or need freely all the time -- it's called stealing. Spreading trillions of dollars among billions of people results in everyone in the world having about $5000 for their ENTIRE LIVES. And that's if you don't spend it at all! And you know what? There will still be people who want more. A lot more.
Hey, you. Yeah, you. The guy with the $30K a year starting salary, with the $150K earning potential. You think you could really get that in a country where the wealth was "evenly distributed"? No, you'd be making about $5K a year. You know why? Because there would still be some way for someone else to get that extra $25K of your salary. Because he "deserves it more". Or, because someone else said so.
You can't tell me that trading between countries is the root of all the eploitation/oppression people experience around the world. You can't tell me that an international meeting that is trying to find a way to GET MORE JOBS and pay people MORE MONEY is going to hurt and exploit those oppressed people MORE. You can't tell me that communism, or socialism, or imperialism, or any other anti-capitalist revolutionary concept is going to give all these oppressed and exploited people what they need. I could examine this: Canada -- not entirely socialist, but they got the health-care thing going -- their financial standing? Multiply by nine, divide by five, and add 32, man. It's the Fahrenheit dollar to our Celsius. (Hey, look, the one thing we do decimally.) Russia -- a month's pay for a loaf of bread? Yeah. Right. China? China can't even control its population, let alone its finances, or its government for that matter. Why do you think Taiwan wants out? Why did the Soviet Union fall apart? The most successful Communist country to date is Vietnam. A real poster child there. Look at Afghanistan. Or, wait, don't, at least not until the land mine explodes .... okay, now you can look. Look at what essentially a religious oligarchy did there.
Now look at the United States. A massive capitalist "empire" where people have rights, people have money (most of the time), and people have at the very least an opportunity to get what they want or need. What's the difference?
The difference is, capitalism is about using the money you have to make more of it. Money flows; otherwise it's worth nothing. Money flows via trade; we are not, by far, a self-sufficient country, nor should we be, and money is the way to get what we want and need as a country and as a society.
Capitalism is what allowed you to have the time and the freedom to go protest itself. Capitalism, and a free speech clause.
And no, I don't worship capitalism. Capitalism is not THE answer to everything. There is no one answer. The real problem that no protest, no petition, no boycott can solve is this: humans are fundamentally flawed. We are not perfect. Were we perfect, there would be no oppression, no needless suffering, no poverty. Were we perfect, we wouldn't need anything. We are NOT perfect. We are greedy, selfish bastards who want distribution of wealth simply because it means more for us.
I am a poor person. I am a white chick who grew up on a farm on the outskirts of suburbia in New Jersey. I am a graduate student making $14K a year (with $50K in debts from school alone) and struggling from paycheck to paycheck in a dual-income household with my fiance, the unemployed sysadmin who makes 2/3 as much as I do on unemployment. (Which we wouldn't have without capitalism, by the way. Did Russia pay people who didn't work? I don't think so.) My fiance grew up in the ghetto in New York City. My parents have worked all their lives at a job that keeps them in the red every single year and yet, because of legal restrictions on land use, they can't ever give up on. And yet, I refuse to protest the international trade that could result from the World Economic Fund, and the World Trade Organization, and FTAA, and NAFTA, and all those other related groups, because I know that in some way, it will benefit me by the simple fact that there's going to be a chance for me. I know that I will be able to make the money that will allow me, and my fiance, and maybe even my son, to live a better life.
I can say that confidently, because I know that trade encourages money flow, which encourages job creation, which encourages opportunities for everyone. I can say that confidently because I have the balls to be thankful for what I've been given. And I can say that because I accept the ramifications of the choices that I make.
It's not the system, it's the administration. Protest THAT.
And by the way, if it weren't for all that capitalism and foreign trade, there'd be no New York (founded by the Dutch and conquered by the English), no Statue of Liberty (a gift from France), and no little New York City souvenirs (made in Taiwan). So it's not all bad.
After a couple more hours of discussion on this issue after this writeup was posted, there are a couple of distinctions I think I need to make.
First of all, Capitalism does NOT mean Big Business. In fact, I'm kind of anti-big business. Think about this; who really wants a Microsoft for every single commodity on the market? Capitalism is the only system to genuinely encourage free enterprise. That is, if you've got an idea that's marketable, you can open a business! Yes, even if someone else had the same idea, if you can sell it, you can open your own business! Now, you might get bought out, but that's laissez-faire capitalism for you.
I'm not saying that's a good thing, either. Big business causes suburbs, and at the rate we're going with our Big Business Mania (Target, Wal-Mart, Barnes and Noble, Starbucks, Costco, brand-name outlet store complexes, etc.) the only open spaces left in fifty years will be parks or the Midwest. I actually left a Trader Joe's today because it was riddled with yuppie family time. Trader Joe's!
But I'll save my small business garble for another rant, another time.
I'd also like to try to clear something up about government intervention. There is no way to have an economy without the government. The government HAS to be involved. Defense contractors, education, national debt, it's all part and parcel of economic flow. One of our many problems as a nation is that our government is too busy regulating our bedrooms, our uteruses (uteri?), and our chosen states of mind to bother enforcing ethical business practices. Of course, that's also probably adversely affected by the fact that most politicians make six times as much money from donations from big businesses for purposes of "looking the other way" as they do from their government salary. We need to tell our leaders to take charge before it's too late; the Microsoft anti-trust case, which you can read about for yourself, is a prime example of "too late". Half-assed efforts are not what we need; look at all the anti-trust lawsuits in the early 1900s because the government "looked the other way". Again, another story, another time, but you can't avoid the fact that the government has to be involved in anything that can affect the economy. Look at Enron. On second thought, don't; they'll claim you shredded papers.
Maybe the answer is to have a bunch of poor people set up a new capitalist, democratic system and see what happens when people who suddenly have a glimmer of hope of having money someday do with that feeling. Or, we can wait 10 years and see how Afghanistan does.
I think that's all I have to say for now. Thanks for listening, and don't forget to tip your waitstaff.
Today on the bus home from work I sat two seats behind a girl. There were four of us on the top deck of this bus, so I felt okay about sliding my Creative Jukebox volume up a notch or two. So a couple of people hear I'm listening to Cathy Dennis after The Sundays, big deal.
As I stared vacantly ahead I could see this girl looking left and right, initially out of the window and then focusing on the glass. I twigged she was catching her own reflection, and started to get curious. From the back she had messy shortish black hair a-la Charlotte Hatherly which had a blonde and red patch at the bottom.
She was pretty young, looked about 15 or something, but dressed more like an older girl. A really nice indie chick type of long jacket with 'frilly' shit on the collar and cuffs. She's put on quite a lot of mascara. Not like a HUGE amount, but just enough so that you'd notice, or at least think to yourself 'she's wearing mascara'.
Anyway, that's it. I like natural music videos, they're going to be my 'thing' if I ever make music videos, cos all you have to do is film the view of a train or something. Dammit, the Chemical Brothers beat me to it. Although their's isn't really that natural, it's computer generated so that the bushes and other trains flash past with the tune. Amazing. Onnnnnn WEEEEEDD! (sorry, too much Half Baked viewing for me!).
And this was a very nice natural music video.
Thus concludes my first and hopefully last Daylog. Note to self: no E2 posting while out of it.
There's nothing stupider than a muke. I didn't know I was in love with you.
You were the boy I missed every night as I went to sleep crying. For years. I didn't know I was in love with you.
You were the boy whose image I attached to every love song I heard. Even the ones we sang in church. I didn't know I was in love with you.
You were the boy I told: I love you, I care about you. I said I was jealous of your dog. I didn't know I was in love with you.
There's nothing stupider than a muke.
Last week, I had to tell a man I wasn't in love with him. Because I had to think, long and hard, about what love meant, and what kind of love I wanted.
And I didn't know until then that I have been in love with you the whole time.
And I told you today. Eight years later.
You said, "I know."
But you don't feel the same way. I didn't expect you would... But I had to tell you anyway.
They took it away. They took my computer from me as punishment. I cry alone now. I'll miss E2. I'll miss all my friends here. I'm going to be spending a lot of time at the public library and will try to node once in a while. I thank you all for all your support and I hope someday to be able to spend too much time here again.
I'm so very tired lately and slept right through the alarm to get up to go to the doctors and now my parents have taken the computer as punishment. I meant to get up. I really did but I'm so tired and it's so hard to fall asleep. I have to hurry up because my best friend is going to go with me to the doctors. I have to get the staples removed from my leg. I just wanted to do a daylog and tell the people that keep an eye on me here why I'm not here as much now. Thank you for caring.
Ya know... I've realized a few things.
I think I over-extended myself today...
I love you, but not enough. I could never love you enough, no matter how hard I tried. I could let myself go lax in my studies, and devote all my time to the care and feeding of this love, but still, I could never love you enough. It's not you, my dear, you're not broken; you're too perfect to be broken -- the way you casually accept my wildest devotions and my most ludicrous moments of failure with nothing but a charming smile, or perhaps a wicked glance just breaks my brain. I am at a loss for adjectives when I am with you -- there are no compliments in our native language that are suitable to you, and the few I remember in other languages are damned near untranslatable, and we don't speak the same range of tongues. But, then, we hardly need to speak, do we? You always seem to understand what I mean. I could say "chicken chowder", and you would know I really meant that I was horribly depressed and heartbroken. Sometimes, I hear your voice in my head -- some bit of witty patter from another place, another time, and I smile to myself. Other pedestrians stare at me, but I hardly notice: you are the whole of my world. i love you, but not enough, and it scares the living shit out of me.
On a less happy note, I seem to have eaten a bran muffin which contained some insidious allergen. My head is pounding and my throat is swelling. *sigh* The only redeeming quality of mild anaphylaxis is that it isn't severe enough to kill me. This, too, I assume, shall pass...
Still, my manager's been pulling for me for the past month or so, and it looked like I was good to go over to the QE group (Quality Engineering aka testing). They're definitely impressed with my technical know-how (not surprising since I've been in support for almost four years and know half our products inside and out, and can pretty easily fake the other half). Then today management drops the bomb that the open personnell slot they thought they had is apparently not available. Still, I'd apparently interested QE enough that they're going to see if they can pull some strings to transfer me anyway. Of course, this meant that I had to spend most of today essentially writing up a resume listing all the great skills I can bring.
Oh well, I guess I'll spend the rest of the day surfing through the userfriendly archives to try to cheer myself up.
Who the hell am I?
As pretty much everyone knows, I've been struggling to find out exactly who I am with regards to those big questions of sexuality, gender identity, and how I fit into the world. Well, I came out at work today, told two of my co-workers pretty much everything about my struggle to find exactly what my gender is. I didn't want to do it, not yet anyways, but what's done is done, I guess.
It started out as normal office banter. I was talking with the two main office administrators, women in their mid-forties who had seen a lot more of life than I have. Somewhere along the way, I said something I probably shouldn't have, at least not right now, dug myself into a hole, and found myself looking at two sets of eyes probably wondering if I had finally gone off the deep end. Realizing exactly what I had done, I figured I might as well just be off with it and let the chips lie where they may.
I talked about the general malaise I had been feeling about my gender, a feeling that had been within me for a very long time. I tried not to get into too many details, as I said before, I really didn't want to get into specifics, especially there; it's not exactly a subject for the workplace.
They were supportive, and strongly suggested that I look into getting professional help, and determining if this truly was the right path for me. We talked briefly about how to tell my parents; both of them strongly suggested I hold off telling them until I had seen a psychiatrist and determined my true feelings. We talked about how to pay for what may be very expensive treatment; I'm in that awkward income bracket where I'm too rich for most subsidized mental health care, and too poor to afford medical insurance which will provide a decent amount of treatment. I guess that's one thing I'm going to have to determine - are there any programs that I do qualify for which will give me the services I know will be helpful.
Almost as quickly as the conversation began, it ended. The warehouse guy, someone who I definitely don't want to talk about all this with, came in, ending the conversation. We all returned to work, and didn't speak about it any more. I'm sure the topic will come up again; it's not exactly the kind of thing you can talk about once and forget about.
Through the whole conversation, I was of that odd mental state where part of me wanted to tell absolutely everything, and part of me wanted to tell absolutely nothing. I didn't know if they were going condemn me for my mental state, if this was going to end up getting me fired, if I was going to just break down and cry, or what. I was sweating, but at the same time, feeling great. It felt relieving to talk about these emotions I've had bottled up inside me for a long, long time. Who knows what will come of this? Nothing? Everything? Maybe that elusive happiness I've been seeking? All I know, is what's done is done, and there's nothing much I can do about it now.
My girlfriend broke my nose today
Anyway, we were sitting around the house on this cold rainy day. Bored but in a pleasant way. One thing leads to another and before you know it, we are emulating our favourite wwf stars. Imagine the mind of a person who watches professional wrestling. She's HHH and I'm Kurt Angle. No, really, this isn't a euphamism for sex. I'm showing her how to do a body slam, right there on the futon. This is the real deal, in-Japan futons here. None of those make believe ones you get in the west with the slats under them. Sooner or later she wants to win one, or at least go for a pin. "you could at least pretend to lose", she whines. Okay I say and job to her. Here's the plan. She'll fling me off the wall, bend over to toss me over her back. Then I'll get up and suplex her, from the sitting position, I mean, she is a girl and all. I forget the rest of the plan, but no doubt it involved me letting her think she was gonna win, and then crossing and beating her anyway. All goes well until halfway through the suplex. I get her up, but then drop her, back first onto my face, driving my nose back into my head. She of course is unaware that there is a snafu and somehow doesn't see the copious amounts of blood until after she makes her first real pin.
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The first initial public offering of an Abu Dhabi corporate in London looks both tempting and risky. NMC Health has every reason to want to list in the UK. It has a clear growth story, and the London market knows healthcare well. But investors should demand to see a full medical history before parting with any cash.
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The IPO will entirely comprise new shares, and NMC has set out a reasonably specific plan for what it wants to do with the projected $250 million proceeds. About 30 percent of the company will be sold, implying a market capitalisation of around $830 million for the listed entity. That seems to be in the right ball park, based on early disclosure. NMC says it made EBITDA of $70.5 million last year. On a multiple of 8, in line with similar quoted companies in the West, that would imply an enterprise value of $560 million, and an equity value of $810 million adding the new money. NMC doesn't have much debt, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Demand for healthcare in the United Arab Emirates is set to rise. The population is growing, and a fondness for Western consumption has brought with it a rise in so-called lifestyle diseases. NMC is capable of taking a sizeable share of this opportunity, having been going since 1975. Adjusted EBITDA has risen by a compound 30 percent over the last three years.
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— UAE healthcare provider NMC Health, founded by billionaire Indian entrepreneur B.R. Shetty, plans to raise up to $250 million by offering an additional 30 percent of its capital in an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP)
The longest 100-meter dash ever is soon coming to a finish.
After Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh run in the 200-meter final Saturday night at Hayward Field, the two women will choose how they will resolve their third-place tie last weekend in the 100 meters.
A decision was expected either Saturday night or early Sunday. At stake was the third spot on the U.S. Olympic team in the event.
There are basically three options: Runoff, coin flip, or one athlete could concede the place on the team to the other.
If there is a runoff, it would likely have to come late Sunday, following the final day of events at the trials.
The pair, who train together, must first compete in the 200, which highlights a day of finals at the trials that includes the men's 110-meter hurdles and triple jump, and the women's high jump.
Among the other events is the semifinal for the men's 200, which was diluted when Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin passed on the event after making the Olympic team in the 100, and Walter Dix dropped out because of a lingering left hamstring injury.
Dix won the bronze medal in both the 100 and 200 in Beijing. His best chance to make the team for the London Olympics will be if he is selected to the 400 relay team.
''We're missing Tyson, Walter and Justin - that's U.S. best right there,'' said 34-year-old Doc Patton, who advanced in his heat. ''The door is open for anyone in the field right now.''
But the focus will undoubtedly be on Felix and Tarmoh.
The 100 has become something of a debacle at the trials, because U.S. track and field officials had no plan in place to deal with dead heats.
It all started last Saturday.
Carmelita Jeter won the 100 in 10.92 seconds, followed by Tianna Madison in 10.96. It was announced to the Hayward Field crowd that Tarmoh edged training partner Felix by 0.0001 seconds to finish third in 11.068, but the results were immediately reviewed.
Two cameras were trained on the finish, but one image was obscured. The other showed that the two women were exactly even when their torsos - which determine times - hit the line.
USA Track and Field officials were caught off guard by the dead heat. With no official policy in place, it took 24 hours for a procedure to be devised that included the options of the coin flip and the runoff.
If both athletes choose the same tiebreaker, that's the method that will be used. If they disagree, the tiebreaker will be a runoff. And if both decide not to state a preference, a coin flip will decide the third member of the Olympic team.
The sprinters have elected to not say anything until after the 200. That way, they can focus on making the team in that event.
The USATF has said that it wants the Olympic team in all events to be finalized by Sunday.
On Friday afternoon, both Felix and Tarmoh advanced to Saturday's final. Mute since the controversy erupted in the 100, Felix just said ''feeling good'' afterward before she was whisked away by coach Bobby Kersee.
Also running in the 200 is Sanya Richards-Ross, who won the 400 earlier at trials.
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Lol I was kidding about it not being nasty. DLT you should put in your opening post what is it about. Well I'll say it here, the girl posted too much info of herself on facebook. Some guy asked her through facebook if they can meet up to have sex, she rejected him. So with all the info she had of herself on facebook, her address, phone number, etc. The guy went to her house and it looks like he killed her. The last 4 pics are nasty, it's pics of her dead with a stab wound on her forehead or something.
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Hi everybody, I submitted my shots for my assignment 5 this week with the photography institute yesterday.
The shots are based around colour and how the effects of one can change an image.
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